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Updated: May 9, 2025
We have educated the grand old ideal of service out of our own land; and we are fast educating it out of India also: though it remains an open question whether the good wrought by over-civilisation can honestly be said to counterbalance the evil. A question few Anglo-Indians will be found to answer in the affirmative. Lenox poured out his tea, and drank it thirstily.
A very wonderful little figure in white satin, lithe and sinuous as a cat, Chinese in the subtlety of her looks, European in her almost sinister over-civilisation, stood smiling blandly at the applauding audience. "La Belle Nita," Maggie murmured. "I thought she was in Paris. Well, what of her?" "She is reputed to be a protégée of Prince Shan. You see how she looks up at his box."
When she had paid her first visit to America with her uncle and aunt as a girl of sixteen, she had been sent for the benefit of her health to stay with some people who owned a huge Californian 'ranch, and there she learned to ride on horses that were scarcely broken in, and to gallop across miles and miles of prairie, bareheaded to the burning sun, and had, in such pastime, felt the glorious sense of that savage and splendid freedom which is the true heritage of every child of nature, a heritage too often lost in the tangled ways of over-civilisation, and seldom or never regained.
We have incited the slumbering passions of this people, and by offering to their eyes the sight of European luxury and European over-civilisation, have aroused in them desires to which they were formerly strangers. Our system of public instruction is calculated to disseminate among all classes of the Indian race the worthless materialistic popular education of our own nation.
Heart-complaints are more common than they were; over-education and over-civilisation, I suspect. Very young people are not so subject to them; they have flurry, not worry a very different thing.
'And is that what you mean by over-civilisation? Alma asked of Rolfe. 'I didn't say anything about it. But I should think many people in large and troublesome houses would agree with Mrs. Frothingham. It's easy to imagine a time when such burdens won't be tolerated. Our misfortune is, of course, that we are not civilised enough. 'Not enough to give up fashionable nonsense. I agree with that.
Throughout The Egoist, by George Meredith, a comedy in which Clara Middleton's life comes near to being tragic, the air would clear at any moment if Sir Willoughby and Clara had not both lost through over-civilisation the power of saying precisely what they mean.
For if you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not. When I was about seven years old I used to think that the chief modern danger was a danger of over-civilisation.
Doubtless she knew best in her social sense he had great confidence so he acquiesced in her silence about them. Still, as he reflected, it is not a little lamentable that even friendship, the angelic relation between man and woman, should be thus beset by perils from within and pitfalls without. Where lay the fault with over-civilisation and the improper proprieties resultant therefrom?
Her make altogether was that not uncommon to London girls of the lower middle- class: small-boned and possibly anaemic, but prettily moulded, and with an attraction of over-civilisation as of hot-house-grown plants.
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